If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

search for phrase bug?

Greetings,

I´ve got a question. I want to find all verses, with the phrase הַר בֵּית־יְהוָ֤ה. When I click on "search for phrase" for example in Mi 4:1 I get 2 hits (Isa 2:2 and Mi 4,1). But the phrase also occurs in 2 Chr 33,15 with the prepositionבְּ. What do I wrong? Or is that a bug?

POST SCRIPT:
In BibleWorks original language texts come in pairs. One text will be a normal printed version the other a morphologically tagged edition. When you search on the WTT(non-coded normal text) you will find exactly the same 'sting of characters' you selected to search on. This answers why you only found הַר בֵּית־יְהוָ֤ה in Isaiah and Micah, but not the 2 Chronicles where the phrase in discussion appears with a בְּ . On the other hand In a morphological version your options and search result possibilities are limited only by the various tagging and not by the actually texts. So, in general use WTT as your display/reading text and use WTM for searching.

It works fine! I´ve expected that also in the WTT the "search for phrase" option would yield all three hits though 2 Chr 33,15 begins with a preposition. It would be nice to see it in coming Bibleworks versions.

WTT vs WTM

Originally Posted by Stephanus

Thank you Brian!

It works fine! I´ve expected that also in the WTT the "search for phrase" option would yield all three hits though 2 Chr 33,15 begins with a preposition. It would be nice to see it in coming Bibleworks versions.

in Christ,
Stephanus

Remember that BW seraches for words, not characters. You can do the search in the WTT version but you would need to add a wildcard character at the beginning of the first word to match the preposition. But in general it is usually better as someone already said to do string searches using the morph version because it breaks words apart into co,posite lemmas.

Let's try that search

You can do the search in the WTT version but you would need to add a wildcard character at the beginning of the first word to match the preposition...

Okay, let's try that search
I picked the WTT as my search version this time and then used the * wild-card so on the BW command line I typed in something like this:בהר בית־יהוה*

And, it worked! I got all three of the verses mentioned early in this thread.
Thanks Mr. Mr.Bushell for the suggestion and correction.
And Stephanus sorry if I mislead you about the WTT, anyway try the above search out.